Anton Grasser

Anton Grasser (11 November 1891-3 November 1976) was a General der Infanterie of the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

Biography
Anton Grasser was born on 3 November 1891 in Bossendorf, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire, and he served in the Imperial German Army from 1913 to 1918 during World War I. In 1936, he reentered the military, and he rose to the rank of General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Grasser commanded the 25th Panzergrenadier Division for the entirety of its existence, and he was forced to surrender to the British Army and US Army rather than be captured by the Soviet Union. In 1951, he entered West Germany's border guards, and he joined Albert Schnez's paramilitary group, which sought to prevent a Soviet invasion of West Germany. Grasser retired in 1953, and he died in Stuttgart in 1976 at the age of 85.